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Have you guys tried Stitch with Google? It’s amazing. I’m really curious to know how it works in the backend. Does anyone have any idea? I noticed that the designs are quite good even though it uses Gemini. When I tried the same thing by cloning blot.new locally and testing it, there was a huge difference. I know it’s a coding model, but still how is Google Stitch able to achieve this? Are they generating text or images behind the scenes? How are they so accurate and good?


I faced the same problem myself — traffic was the main issue. Even if the product is great, it won’t matter unless people can actually find it. Another thing I realized: the intended user and the actual user can be very different.

In my case, I built an app called foundersmail.xyz, which gives users access to founders' official emails and other details. I got the idea after seeing someone else build a similar tool for investors — it worked well for him, but he already had an audience and reputation.

For me, I promoted it across various subreddits and platforms and got around 100 users. I noticed that only 20–30% actually used up their free credits. While debugging this, I discovered most of my users were students cold-emailing founders for summer internships. I thought at least one of them might convert — but unfortunately, none did (still trying to figure that part out).

My two biggest mistakes:

No traffic — not enough eyeballs.

Target audience mismatch — students using it instead of founders or professionals.

Interestingly, there are competitors making money with similar products, so I know there’s potential. I’m still figuring out what’s missing in my approach.

That said, I’m okay with the outcome so far. I haven’t spent a single rupee — free domain, free hosting, and I built it in my spare time and vibe coded. It was an experiment rather than an actual business.


For contactng founders, you compete against LinkedIn and a slew of sites selling email credits by the thousands.


I’m not competing against them. I’m simply maintaining a directory of founders with their official contact emails. In fact, we also provide their LinkedIn profiles. The problem I’m trying to solve is organizing a directory of founders categorized under various domains. In most other applications, there’s a plethora of details—it’s chaotic.


The point is that for someone to want to use your site, they need to think about your site before they think of LinkedIn or any of the e-mail lookup sites for them to go to your site when they need the contact info for someone.

So, yes, you are competing with them.


What is the latency?


The major problem I see with current LLM-based code generation is their overconfidence beyond a certain point. I've experienced agents losing track of what they are developing; a single line change can literally mess up my entire codebase, making debugging a nightmare.

I believe we need more structured, policy-driven models that exhibit a bit of self-doubt, prompting them to revert to us for clarification. Furthermore, there should be certain industry standards in place. Another significant issue is testing and handling edge cases. No matter what, today's AI consistently fails when dealing with these scenarios, and security remains a concern. what are some problems you have noticed ??


I feel the concept of EV charging might be democratized. These are the problems with EV stations:

It takes a while to charge up.

No matter what, only a very few people can be accommodated at once.

On the flip side, setting up a gas station is hard, but that’s not the case with EV charging stations — especially if battery swapping is innovated. It also takes time to deeply penetrate the market, but EV charging is much more suitable for two-wheelers.

So there’s a clear gap — the current gas stations can’t handle the volume of people waiting for EV charging. What is the way forward? I feel anyone with an EV charger can set up an EV charging station at home. This means all your malls, houses, and parks might be converted into EV charging stations, making it much more decentralized.

I anticipate that anyone with an EV charger and good parking space can make some extra bucks from it. I feel the whole idea of gas stations might be democratized. I’m not sure — this is just what I feel. Feel free to let me know your opinion.


Connecting EV charging stations to the grid is a significant problem. Balancing the peak grid maximum demand* against EV charging demand. While it may be okay to have a busy highway/motorway service station properly hooked up, it get's more difficult to apply that more broadly. How much charging capacity should a shopping centre provide? What about a occasionally-used sports venue?

I have worked with customers that have distribution centres in city locations to charge online-shopping vehicles overnight for the next day. All vehicles are plugged in and the software needs to charge different vehicles up at different times and rates, in order to spread the load.

It is far easier to dig a hole in the ground and fill a tank with delivered fuel - all the logistics for this already exists.

* Maximum demand is a well-known concept that relates to the maximum current draw in a 30-minute period, which is used to provide the necessary infrastructure from the electricity supplier.


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